. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. whichoccurred in the fall of 49 may not be out of place here. Thedoctor was a Southerner by birth, and one of the old school, as hisstyle of dress, which consisted of a white fur plug hat, blue coatwith brass buttons, a buff-colored vest with trovvsers to match, indi-cated. Upon certain occasions he sported a frill shirt front as in this style, he went one day astride his favorite Buceph-alus, to visit a patient a few miles from town. It had been rain-i
. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. whichoccurred in the fall of 49 may not be out of place here. Thedoctor was a Southerner by birth, and one of the old school, as hisstyle of dress, which consisted of a white fur plug hat, blue coatwith brass buttons, a buff-colored vest with trovvsers to match, indi-cated. Upon certain occasions he sported a frill shirt front as in this style, he went one day astride his favorite Buceph-alus, to visit a patient a few miles from town. It had been rain-ing recently, and the road upon which he was travelling was housedeep with soft yellow mud. He passed on his way a tall, large,raw-boned Scotchman, carrying upon his shoulder a sack of flour,and as he passed the pedestrian the doctor remarked that wallow- 64 THE ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORX/A. ing through the deep mud with a load hke that must be toughwork. AVell, retorted the Scotchman, and thats me ahi business;andhed I ye doon here, me mon, I wad wallow ye in the mud, too. You would, would you, says the doctor, at the same time. HE DONE IT WEEL. leaping from his horse, and landing knee-deep in the mud along-side of the Scotchman. The latter laid down his burden upon a log, and seizing thedoctor by the nape of the neck and seat of his pants, he raisedhim up and dropped him in the deepest part of a mud-hole. Thedoctor wasnt long in getting out, and mounting his horse was soon THE ARGOXAlTS OF CALIFORNIA. 65 on his way home, remarking; to the valiant Su>t as he turned toleave: \\ell, now, Scottv, vou done that weel. It was about sixteen years afterwards that the doctor was sit-ting in the bar-room of the What Cheer House, in Sacramento City,and in company with a few others, talking of old times. Duringthe conversation he related how the tall Scotchman had rolled himin the yellow mud, and how he looked as though he had been runthrough a miners ground sluice. Sitting tipped back in a
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